IJCAI Workshop on Decision Making in Partially Observable, Uncertain Worlds: Exploring Insights from Multiple Communities July 18 2011
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~emma/ijcai2011_workshop.html Planning under uncertainty and partial observability is a key challenge for both single agent and multi-agent systems. While much progress has been made over the past decade in both areas, new breakthroughs are needed for scaling up to more realistic domains. In the related field of planning (classical, contingent, and conformant) modern solvers can handle much larger domains, under the simpler planning models. Moreover, scaling up of single and multi-agent partially observable problems has been done largely independently, as the two communities have little overlap. In this workshop we seek to bring together members of these three communities that handle partial observability - conformant planning, POMDPs, and DEC-POMDPs - as well as people from other related communities, such as classical planning, MDPs, reinforcement learning, and distributed search, to discuss how each community may be able to leverage advances from the other. We will have invited talks by three experts in these areas: Hector Geffner, David Hsu, and Shlomo Zilberstein. We solicit papers relevant to single or multi-agent decision making under uncertainty and partial observability. Submissions that discuss the relationships between conformant planning, POMDPs and/or DEC-POMDPs will be given priority in acceptance. ** Format ** We invite researchers to submit new contributions in the standard IJCAI 2010 format (6 page limit). We also solicit brief (2-page) position statements / extended abstracts. Papers should be submitted to: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=dmpouw2011 ** Key dates ** Submission deadline: March 14 2011 Paper notifications: April 25 2011 Final papers due: May 16 2011 Workshop: 18 July 2011 ** Organizers ** Christopher Amato, Aptima, Inc Emma Brunskill, University of California, Berkeley Guy Shani, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Matthijs Spaan, ISR, Instituto Superior Tecnico ** Program Committee ** Alexandre Albore, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Amin Atrash, McGill University Blai Bonet, Universidad Simón Bolívar Dan Bryce, Utah State Univiversity Finale Doshi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia Mausam, University of Washington Frans Oliehoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hector Palacios, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid Scott Sanner, National ICT Australia Siddharth Srivastava, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Pradeep Varakantham, Singapore Management University Mathijs de Weerdt, Delft University of Technology _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
